09:00 to 10:15

Welcome and Opening address

With EV uptake reaching record levels, harnessing EV flexibility is increasingly important to alleviate grid congestion, reduce peak demand and integrate renewable energy. While barriers remain, recent legislative and non-legislative measures are addressing many of these challenges, paving the way for smart and bidirectional charging and enabling viable business models.

10:45 to 12:00

This session will explore how national frameworks can move smart and bidirectional charging from pilots and regulatory sandboxes to wider market deployment. It will discuss key enablers, remaining barriers and lessons learned from national approaches, with a focus on creating the regulatory and market conditions needed to scale up viable business models.

Moderation: Gabrielle Clark, Public Affairs Manager, E-Mobility Europe

This session is geared to answering the question: What is the physical testing path to achieving true multi-mark interoperability for bidirectional charging in Europe and other world-markets? Contributions are initiated and introduced by two impulse presentations. 
The first will inform about international efforts to achieve interoperability in V2G, exemplifying the new “EU-India Innovation Hub on electric vehicle charging technologies and testing”. It shows how collaborative pre-normative testing, conscient of international standards, achieve a key role in national and world-region norms and regulations.
A second impulse talk explains how IEA EV-TCP Task 53 paves the way from pre-testing to Multiparty testing (in AC and DC), identifying a minimum viable interoperability stack in view of e.g., ISO 15118-20.
An expert panel follows, moderated by H. Scholz, in which top experts in V2G from across Europe discuss use-cases and test-cases, the physical testing strategies, as well as the developing certification, whilst illustrating the greatly improved collaboration between key V2G laboratories involved.

14:00 to 14:45

14:45 to 15:30

The objective of a digital platform for energy aggregators is to enhance the management and optimisation of distributed energy resources (DERs) within the energy system. 
The session will address the concept a Digital Platform for Aggregators as postulated by the Coalition of the Willing for Bidirectional charging is to: modifying generation and/or consumption patterns in reaction to a flexibility signal that is orchestrated between the TSO and DSO to trigger a service within the energy system. 
As concrete industrial business case, depot charging will be discussed as it plays a crucial role in providing flexibility to the grid by light and heavy-duty vehicles at central locations like depots, warehouses or fleet yards. For aggregators, it allows offering V2X-based services with both scale and helpful plannability. The panel will address a strategic industrial cooperation between key stakeholders like aggregators, fleet owners, charge point manufacturers etc., in data processing, as a basis to support open digital platforms and mastering edge computing.

16:00 to 17:00

Moderation: Chris Heron, Secretary General, E-Mobility Europe